Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort (14775988182)

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Title: Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hamilton, Peter J. (Peter Joseph), 1859-1927
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Hougthon Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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ckade and blockhouse built, and the placere-christened Fort Jackson. It was, a few months later, thescene of the surrender of the brave Weatherford, whom thegeneral could hardly protect from the infuriated Americans.The two men lived to be afterwards strong personal friends. Jackson marched his troops back to Tennessee, but, beingpromoted to the rank of major-general and to command of thesouthern army, he was again at Fort Jackson on August 9 toconclude a treaty of peace with the defeated Creeks. By thisall their country was surrendered to the United States exceptthe part east of the Coosa River and of a line drawn southeast-wardly from Fort Jackson. The great Creek war, which had threatened the very exist-ence of the Americans on the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers,thus resulted in opening up to them the woods and prairies ofthe most fertile part of the future State of Alabama. Thesites of Forts Tombecbe and Toulouse were no longer isolated,^ 2 Monettes Valley of the Mississippi, p. 421.
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GRAVE OF PUSHMATAHA THE CREEK WAR. 425 but within territory acquired by the whites, and soon to bewell settled.^ At least one survivor of Fort Mims, McGirth by name, was on theMobile wharf to be reunited to the family which he thought killed at FortMims. They, as he learned to his joy, had been rescued by an Indian ofthe attacking force, whom years before McGirth had adopted and raisedwith his own children. Pushmataha died at Washington December 24,1824,burned out with strong drink, and through Senator Jacksons influence therewere fired over his grave in the Congressional Cemetery the big guns heloved so well. See sketch by Lincecum, 9 Miss. Hist. Socy PubL, p. 415.Sam Dale was to dine familiarly with President Jackson in the White House,and also to feel the hand of civil law in an arrest for debt in Cullums Hotelat Mobile, from which generous citizens at once released him by payingoff the claim. Dale was to be praised and pensioned by the legislatureof Alabama and have a county named